The beginning of African-American history was in slavery. However, our minds have been conditioned to automatically reject any attempt of the mind to reflect on the 400-year history necessary to produce a deformed and abnormal psychology of slave perpetuation.

Henry Berry, House of Delegates of Virginia 1832 stated, “We have as far as possible, closed every avenue by which light may enter the slave mind. If we could extinguish the capacity to see the God-given light, then our work would be completed. They would then be reduced to the level of the beast of the field and we would be safe.”

If you are cut off from the knowledge of your people and then someone also cuts you off from the traditions of your people, you are helpless to find your way back home because you don’t have the books to read and the traditions passed down by your mother and father to follow. So all you can do is just live the life you are in.

Islam was the only organized religion our African ancestors had when they were being brought to America for slavery. The slave history and the slave mentality still hangs on in the African-American life and it is a troublemaker in the subconscious. Unless we bring it up so that the conscious can see it and deal with it, we’ll still be here a long time in slavery.

The worst form slavery is not the form you understand, to weigh a man or woman down with yokes and chains. The worst form of slavery is the enslavement of your mind. Many men and women today go around thinking that they are free while they are mentally slaves.

Behaviors can be clocked into your genes if you are put under those kinds of behaviors for a long time.

How much of our actions and behaviors have been clocked into our genes and our human behavior by the horrible conditions that were created for our ancestors during slavery and after?